One of Amtrak's Downeaster F40 NPCU's brings up the rear of an Amtrak test move as it rolls on to the bridge over the Fore River Inlet in Portland, Maine as the train goes around the wye after mak... (more)

20 Years. Amtrak Downeaster service began on December 15, 2001, operating commuter passenger trains from Maine for the first time since 1965. Intitally service was provided between Portland... (more)

With Green Line Extension trackwork continuing, Amtrak's Downeaster is still routed down the Western Route on its way to Boston on weekends. Southbound 694 sweeps through the curve just before Mel... (more)

With strict social distancing rules in place, trackside is a nice place to go and in theory not be around people. While waiting for the Pan Am wreck... (more)

The Downeaster passes under an old B&M signal bridge on it's way out of Dover.

AMTK 90224 - AMTK 2 are in charge of Downeaster Train 696 - seen sailing past CPF 273 onto the #2 track in Plaistow NH.

Amtrak Train 688 races under the bridge at the intersection of Durham Road and Old Brunswick Road, known as "Deep Cut", on a beautiful spring evening. AMTK 89 was pushing/powering the train at the... (more)

Amtrak train 696 gains speed, just after a station stop.

Amtrak slowly heads north through Rondout, passing under the Milwaukee Road searchlights, just north of the tower and diamond.

AMTK 90224 barrels south through Lake Forest, doing every bit of track speed towards Chicago.

Amtrak shoots through Rondout, Chicago bound.

A Hiawatha service train races back to Chicago.

I don't know why the number boards are such a problem on some of these Amtrak cab cars.

Fall colors are just slightly coming into the picture (no pun intended)

Racing west to Milwaukee, I don't know why number boards are such an issue with these NPCU's.